The Various Ways of Seeing God

Sermon 31 on The Song of Songs

"Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you
make it lie down at noon?" The Word, who is the Bridegroom,
often makes himself known under more than one form to those who are
fervent. Why so? Doubtless because he cannot be seen yet as he is.
That vision is unchanging, because the form in which he will then be
seen is unchanging; for he is, and can suffer no change determined by
present, past or future. ...